Don't understand why this is the most famous work of Tennessee Williams, I hope not the most human

Ottilie 2022-03-23 09:01:54

Some time ago, I listened to the translation of the author's Kingdom of the Earth, so I watched one of the author's most famous movies. I have only seen this and a few of Chaplin's films in black and white, and found subtitles in more than a dozen languages. I was curious and watched it. 2 hours.
I don't know what to say about this movie, it's not necessarily the popcorn movie some people call it, but it makes me extremely uncomfortable. First of all, this film is full of violence. I thought the male lead played by Marlon Brando would be a good guy when he first appeared, with a good figure and cute looks, but he was a guy who would beat his wife a lot. As a result, her wife actually resigned, at most she ran upstairs to them, and then the male protagonist called her two times and she came down. The heroine moved to live with them. She married the man she loved when she was young, but he died. After her death, she was mentally unstable and slept with other people. Then there were rumors that she couldn't stay any longer, so she came to rely on her sister. --It's the hero's wife. She witnessed her brother-in-law constantly getting angry and disrespecting her sister. When her sister was pregnant, he would play cards in various ways, smashing the plate and twisting his wrist if something went wrong. Among them, a gentleman who was not young came to chase the heroine, but was also upset when his brother-in-law said that he was old. In the end, the younger sister gave birth to a child, and the male protagonist had a big quarrel with the female protagonist and raped the female protagonist. The heroine is completely insane. But her sister chose not to believe the fact that she was raped by her brother-in-law. The heroine was taken away by the people in the lunatic asylum. In the last scene, the heroine's sister picked up the child and went upstairs to the neighbor's house, saying "never come down again".
I don't know if my sister will soften again. I don't sympathize with her at all. I smashed the lamp just after getting married. Why don't you divorce him? Then it's over after hitting you, why don't you divorce him? Even your sister can be a teacher. You have all been subjected to Proper southern upbringing since you were young, why can't you? I have nothing to say if you are willing to be beaten by him. In the end your sister suddenly went crazy and told you that your shameless asshole husband raped her and you chose not to believe it and said that if I believed it I couldn't be with him. Oh well. . . You two get together slowly. . . . No one can control this. . . But she is right in one sentence, the heroine was an extremely docile child since she was a child, and it was people like you (the hero) who abused her and drove her crazy.
The heroine was obviously a good girl when she was a child. She married the person she loved, but he died. I can't blame her. She died at a young age. After a while, I found out that my dead husband was better. What's wrong with that? She was a woman of culture, taste and hobbies, proficient in many poems and articles that both French and English teachers would read, and would have been a respectable middle-aged elegant woman if her husband had not died. She took the wrong car, and everything is better than her sister's house. She should leave after seeing her brother-in-law's ugly face, but she is soft-hearted and wants to protect her sister, and her sister also feels like home.
Her brother-in-law raped her was just the trigger for her madness. She was disgraced in two places. After her husband died, she finally found a good man. She also left her because of what she had done before. work, nowhere to go. But if she's smart enough she could leave them and sell some of her clothes and find a new place for a fresh start. But that's all for later.
Last word: I thought there were still many gentlemen in the 20th century. . . . .

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  • Stanley: She is as famous in Laurel as if she was the President of the United States, only she is not respected by any party.

  • Stanley: She moved to the hotel called Flamingo which is a second class hotel that has the advantages of not interfering with the private and social life of the personalities there. Now the Flamingo is used to all kinds of goings-on. But even the management of the Flamingo was impressed by Dame Blanche. And in fact, they were so impressed that they requested her to turn in her room-key for permanently. And this, this happened a couple of weeks before she showed here... The trouble with Dame Blanche was that she couldn't put on her act any more in Oriel because they got wised up. And after two or three dates, they quit and then she goes on to another one, the same old line, the same old act, and the same old hooey. And as time went by, she became the town character, regarded not just as different but downright loco and nuts. She didn't re. sign temporarily because of her nerves. She was kicked out before the spring term ended. And I hate to tell you the reason that step was taken. A seventeen-year-old kid she got mixed up with - and the boy's dad learned about it and he got in touch with the high-school superintendent. And there was practically a town ordinance passed against her.